DVD to MP4

[Rocket]

I have some old home video on DVD, anyone know of a decent non complicated software for copying DVD to MP4. Tried "Handbrake" but seems forever to load DVD.
Thanks.

 

[hunnymonster]

Handbrake will do it and frankly in my (limited) experience it's good at it... If it's slow, it's most likely because either your processor isn't up to it (you are decoding MPEG-2 and reencoding as MPEG-4), you've chosen the wrong encoding, or you're running out of memory. Load it up & let it go for as long as it takes (which could easily be 10x the length of the DVD being ripped)

 

[John_L]

VLC is free and can do the job

 

[Rocket]

Handbrake will do it and frankly in my (limited) experience it's good at it... If it's slow, it's most likely because either your processor isn't up to it (you are decoding MPEG-2 and reencoding as MPEG-4), you've chosen the wrong encoding, or you're running out of memory. Load it up & let it go for as long as it takes (which could easily be 10x the length of the DVD being ripped)

Thanks Jason, I am using my AMD Ryzen 3 3200G with Radeon Vega Graphics 3.60 GHz, I would have hoped that would cover, plenty of memory as well. The only thing i cannot see on the start up is the encoding options. I have had the dvd running and copying for the past 4+ hours.

 

[Rocket]

VLC is free and can do the job

Thanks John, I had thought about VLC, but opted for the Hand Break, not sure if VLC will make any difference to the speed.

 

[robj20]

Best option is to first you MakeMKV to rip the DVD you want, choosing the title and sound track you want and removing the stuff you don't. (Its much faster this way)

Then use Handbrake to convert to MP4.

I generally rip a number of MKVs first then set handbrake off overnight and it will do a number of DVDs overnight that way.
Currently working my way through my Blu-ray's.

 

[Deleted member 95430]

Best option is to first you MakeMKV to rip the DVD you want, choosing the title and sound track you want and removing the stuff you don't. (Its much faster this way)

Then use Handbrake to convert to MP4.

I generally rip a number of MKVs first then set handbrake off overnight and it will do a number of DVDs overnight that way.
Currently working my way through my Blu-ray's.

This for part 1, but if you are command line friendly use ffmpeg to convert mkv to mp4 as it will change the container and keep the video and audio lossless. Last time I used handbrake it transcodes everything so if it now has a container feature then ignore me

 

[Rocket]

Thanks All, Seems i have now worked it all out with Hand Break, it is now running much faster and with great results..Gratefull for all your input.

 

[ancient_mariner]

Thanks All, Seems i have now worked it all out with Hand Break, it is now running much faster and with great results..Gratefull for all your input.

What did you change to make it work better?

 

[Rocket]

What did you change to make it work better?

Nothing really, I just learnt how to do it the right way, i was trying to download the whole dvd, but realised it was encodng the disc, i just choose the chapters from the disc which turned them into an M.P